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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribe has opened a treaty harvest and educational camp on public lands in the Penokee Hills, near the site of the proposed worlds largest open pit iron mine, upstream from the Bad River Reservation. The site includes an area that hosted almost 200 Indian allotments in the late 1800
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Water is Life #4 – Defending Clean Water in the Penokees (2:28) – Indian Country News Testimony, video and pictures featured statements from those opposed to the proposed 22 mile long Open Pit Mine in the Penokee Range of Northern Wisconsin upstream from the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation. See on www.indiancountrynews.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River’s most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast. See on www.latimes.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations This winter, after 20 years, the tribes and NWF succeeded in convincing the state of Montana to transfer 68 Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Tribes. This has been one of the hardest nuts to crack in wildlife conservation history. See on blog.nwf.org
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa or Red Bird, was born in 1876 to a full-blooded Sioux woman and a white man. She struggled with her mixed-race heritage as a chid on the reservation as well as off. See on lightskinnededgirl.typepad.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Wounded Knee Mystery Bidders Working to Secure Land for Tribe On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million. He says three of the five standing offers he has could benefit the Oglala Sioux Tribe,
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Alaska is making waves in the tourism industry, especially Alaska Native tourism,” said American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) Executive Director Camille Ferguson during her recent keynote presentation at the Chickaloon Native Village Traditional Cultural Tourism Summit. See on indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations RT @CherokeeNation: Our prayers with the family of Frank Squirrel, who proudly served on our Color Guard, pic far left. He passed Tues. http://t.co/gQyPbiyygd See on twitter.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Even in third grade, Susan Devan Harness knew she didnt belong in the white world. She already was being called “squaw girl” by classmates. See on www.denverpost.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations This year, the Idle No More movement called for Earth Day rallies to focus attention on the links between Indigenous issues and the environmental movement. Events leading up to Earth Day included an impressive ‘Nation2Nation’ (N2N) dialogue between Haudenosaunee and Anishnawbeg leaders like Ellen Gabriel and Leanne Simpson and Canadian activist Naomi Klein in
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